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DESCRIPTION:Queers Fucking Queers \n(A) Contribution to Oakland Pride \n\nOakland Pride
Corporation (OPC) says its mission is to “facilitate leadership and
coalition building for the funding and development of the first LGBTQ
community center in Oakland for everyone.” The ten dollar mandatory cover
and blocks worth of fencing for their LGBTQ Pride Festival prove otherwise.
OPC might facilitate a false leadership over Oakland's working class queers
but it is hardly welcoming or representative of poor queers. \n\nIt was
only four months ago when Brandy Martel was shot in an anti-trans attack on
the corner of 13th and Franklin, just outside of Oakland Pride's
perimeters. Unsurprisingly there is not a single mention of her life or
death in 2012 Pride program. Oakland Pride Corporation's list of sponsors
tells us OPC is more interested in making bank than resisting
hetero-supremacy. \n\nOur struggles in Oakland have made it clear that
public space belongs to all of us. The plazas, the streets, the libraries,
and schools are as free as we want them to be. Pride, a celebration of
resistance to the policing of queer bodies and cultures, will not be exempt
from our desire for total freedom. The Oakland Pride Corporation is
determined to contain queerness within a four block radius for one day per
year. We are committed to queering everywhere. This September 2nd Queers
Fucking Queers will take the streets of Oakland. We will throw our own
Pride without fences, fees, or politicians. Meet us in Snow Park at 5pm. In
pink and black, come dressed for our after party in the streets.\n\nThe
Oakland Pride Corporation is determined to contain queerness within a four
block radius for one day per year. We are committed to queering everywhere.
\n\nOakland Pride's list of atrocious sponsors:\n\nThe City of Oakland
\nThe City of Oakland has shut down schools and libraries because of a
lack of funds yet have spent millions on the police force. The city council
is creating initiatives to spur the gentrification of our neighborhoods.
The City has contributed to the criminalization of youth via “Gang
Injunctions.” They have authorized horrific police violence against the
residents of Oakland.\n\nChevron \nChevron is responsible for thousands of
man-made environmental disasters, paramilitary operations in Nigeria, and
the Richmond refinery explosions earlier this month which hospitalized
hundreds of Bay Area residents.\n\nWells Fargo\nWell for one, Wells Fargo
is a bank. The bank also has evicted thousands of Oakland residents from
their homes. Wells Fargo funds immigrant detention centers and private
prisons, profiting off of racist immigration policies. \n\nWhole Foods
Oakland \nIt is widely known Whole Foods threatened to fire workers for
participating in the November 2nd General Strike.\n\nClear Channel\nRight
wing media empire\n\nPG&E \nThe negligence of PG&E contributed to the
deaths of 8 people, the hospitalization of countless others and the
destruction of nearly 40 homes after a pipeline explosion in San Bruno, CA
in 2010. Not to mention our increasingl­y unaffordable energy bills that
we dread opening every month. \n\nBART\nBART refuses to disband police
force after the murders of Charles Hill and Oscar Grant.\n\nDot Real Estate
\nActively gentrifying San Francisco and Oakland.\n\nWilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati \nWSG&R is a law firm for the same tech giants who have
devastated historically queer neighborhoods in San Francisco and Oakland
through gentrification.\n\nJack Daniels\nJack some of that shit for the QFQ
party.\n\nMarriot \nThe Oakland branch recently hosted the H.E.A.T.
Conference which brought together politicians and police in an effort to
formulate strategies aimed at the further criminalization of sex workers.
\n\nBacardi \nReally? That's just tacky. \n\nRebecca Kaplan (City Council
Woman At Large)\nRebecca Kaplan supports putting more Oakland Police on the
streets despite Oakland's unified hatred of the OPD. She believes the city
should hire private security to patrol the streets of Oakland. Kaplan
advocates streamlining the city's permit process to ensure businesses,
corporations, and developers invest in “desired locations.” She
supports “enforcement actions” against “repeat offenders against
blighted property” to remove graffiti and spur gentrification. She stood
arm and arm with Jean Quan with her back to the police in face off with
protesters during the Oscar Grant Rebellion. Let it be clear, a gay
cop-loving politician is still a cop-loving politician. \n
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/23/18720166.php
SUMMARY:Queers Fucking Queers (A) Contribution to Oakland Pride
LOCATION:Snow Park, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/23/18720166.php
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